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This is a broad timeline of the ongoing series of protests against the government of Iran, sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) on 16 September 2022. Amini had fallen into a coma after having been detained by the Guidance Patrol , allegedly for wearing an "improper" hijab —in violation of Iran's ...
Here is a chronology of unrest in Iran, where security forces have staged tough crackdowns to stamp out dissent in the past. July 1999 - Students angered by a police crackdown demonstrate in ...
Her death sparked widespread antigovernmental protests in Iran. 2022–23: Civil unrest and protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran associated with the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini (Persian: مهسا امینی) began on 16 September 2022 and lasted until 2023. 2024: 1 April
The government's response to the protests and its "brutal and disproportionate use of force against peaceful protesters and children" was widely condemned, [30] but Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei dismissed the unrest as "riots" and part of a "hybrid war" against Iran created by foreign enemy states and dissidents abroad.
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards have put down unrest in the country’s Kurdish areas for decades and many Kurdish activists have been sentenced to long jail terms or death.
Iran's clerical rulers are clamping down on dissent ahead of the anniversary of the death of a young woman in morality police custody, fearing a revival of nationwide protests that rocked the ...
This is a list of wars involving the Islamic Republic of Iran and its predecessor states. It is an unfinished historical overview. It is an unfinished historical overview. Conflict
The church had been set on fire during protests the day before. Holding a Bible, the president declared the country was coming back, drawing criticism from Christians and even some members of the GOP.